Environmental Violence

Richard A. Marcantonio is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Mendoza College of Business and a Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. A scholar-practitioner of environmental management and peacebuilding, he has conducted environmental and social science research on five continents and with varied communities, partnering with governmental, private, and nongovernmental organizations to pursue positive human and environmental outcomes. He is coauthor of Environmental Management: Concepts and Practical Skills (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

• Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Approaching environmental violence; 2. Environmental violence defined; 3. Environmental violence across the global ecosystem and in the contemporary human niche; 4. The flow of environmental violence on the Pampana River, Sierra Leone: Mining and toxic pollution; 5. Environmental violence in everyday island life: Non-toxic pollution and extreme weather; 6. Reflections, findings, and future applications of the environmental violence framework; 7. Ethics, policy, and trajectories of environmental violence; References; Index.

'Rich in theoretical depth and grounded in illuminating case studies, Environmental Violence in the Earth System and the Human Niche provides readers with a penetrating analysis of violence and its impact on both humanity and the environment. An important read for anyone interested in understanding the coevolutionary relationship of environment and society and how human actions transform the environment.' Daniel Auerbach, University of Wyoming